Butterflies

One saying runs:"The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity." And that's surely true when it comes to blogging, where caterpillars barely get a mention.

Very often bloggers are taking photographs of butterflies, and talking about how to get the perfect shot. But sometimes they are just marvelling at their sophistication as an organism, or at their short and fragile lifespan.

Often, also, they are interested in the insects as an ecological indicator, or discussing how they might do their bit to boost the population.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Butterflies”

• Georgetown, Malaysia

  
  Gossamer Tapestry — Authority: 112
  Georgetown Street Scene The ICBES conferences typically involve a mixture of meetings and touring the local area. On the second day of the Malaysian conference, we visited Georgetown, a moderately big city on the island of Penang. Georgetown is named for King George, who was the British monarch at the time the ...
  7 hours ago

• Zinnias & butterfly

  
  Digging — Authority: 124
  Here are a couple more images from the Antique Rose Emporium in San Antonio. Hope you’ve enjoyed the cheery pink zinnias as much as I did—and that butterfly. Have a great day!All material © 2006-2009 by Pam Penick for Digging. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited.
  13 hours ago

• Hints of life…

  
  Dudu Diaries — Authority: 406
  Dear All, thanks for your comments and interest in the world of bugs. Was just down in the Rift Valley at Olorgesailie where it is still so dry, dry, dry. Found one tiny bedraggled Grewia bush in flower, with a couple of tiny lycaenids and an interesting day-flying moth visiting the flowers…
  16 hours ago

• California Green– New Plantings, Centennial Geraniums, Nature Paintings

  
  California Beaches Blog — Authority: 445
  New Plantings, Centennial Geraniums & Mary Morell Nature Paintings Highlight News at Shipley Nature Center in Huntington Beach, CA On Friday, Nov. 10th, nursery volunteers will be planting colorful Golden Monkeyflowers, Pacific Coast Irises and Blue-eyed grass in the incredible new Angel Stream, part of the ...
  1 day ago

• The biggest hair ball ever

  
  All Toile And No Reward — Authority: 114
  Spring has sprung.... with a vengeance! It seems only right and proper that after the interminable weeks of winter, which I despaired would ever end, spring has finally sprung in Melbourne.Saturday was 32 degrees, Sunday was 34, and Im told today is going to nudge into 35. I have only two words for that. At last! ...
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• Blogger field trip: Antique Rose Emporium, San Antonio

  
  Digging — Authority: 124
  Garden path at the Antique Rose EmporiumRose Garden: two words that induce irrepressible yawns. I’ve never enjoyed traditional rose gardens, where different varieties of roses are spaced out across a sunny square and unaccompanied by any other plants. It makes for a hodgepodge of color and same-size blobs in summer ...
  1 day ago

• Dil Jackson – “Player Has Butterflies” [NEW Track]

  
  PinBoard — Authority: 144
  This is so dope, it’s actually hurting my brain. This is Dilla and Michael Jackson . Yea. Dilla and Michael Jackson ! But before you get TOO excited, just know it’s a rework/remix. NOT an original track, but still – this is so nice right now… Dil Jackson – “Player Has Butterflies” This kills it. I ...
  1 day ago

• Butterfly Sympathy Card

  
  big Ideas From A Little Girl — Authority: 127
  Happy Aloha Monday friends! Had to make a couple of sympathy cards and here is one of them. This card used the exclusive Shelli SY Bigz die called Beautiful Butterfly (#114507). I love the butterflies! Here is what the inside of the card looks like. I really like the look of the rosebud in the center of the ...
  1 day ago

• A Mason Jar, Tinker Bell and a Scorpion Named Luke

  
  Amy's Musings — Authority: 103
  She spent the summer capturing butterflies and keeping them in a mason jar. Some life preserving soul in the house had the good sense to cut slits in the top and encourage her to place a few zinnias in the jar as well. Thank goodness. Late at night I would creep downstairs and like a Schindler’s List version of ...
  1 day ago

• A Copy and Paste Blog from Kelly

  
  My Sister's Jar — Authority: 121
  Kelly is my blog sister who lives in Tennessee and is also adopting from Colombia with Gladney Center for Adoption.  We both decorated our little Colombian princesses’ rooms in mariposas de la lavanda  (lavender butterflies)!  Her blog this past week could have been written from my heart as much as it was from ...
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• What’s Better than Garlic?

  
  Flying Tomato Farms — Authority: 123
  Why, MORE garlic, of course! I spent much of the morning working on poetry unit updates for my lit classes (no rest for the wicked or for online teachers) and the late morning and early afternoon hours cleaning up the yard again, now that the last of the leaves have fallen. My monarch butterfly habitat project ...
  2 days ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  this is my patch — Authority: 118
  my photo TEXTURE A structure of interwoven fibres or other elements. The fuzziness of a Speckled Wood butterfly. o
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• Blogger field trip: San Antonio Botanical Garden

  
  Digging — Authority: 124
  A monarch and honeybee share space on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia rotundiflora)Twelve Austin garden bloggers caravaned to San Antonio on Saturday to visit San Antonio Botanical Garden and the Antique Rose Emporium, with a stop along the way at Madrone Nursery in San Marcos, a native-plant nursery open by appointment ...
  2 days ago

• Chrysalis

  
  TYWKIWDBI — Authority: 608
  I dont know the species, but it must be tropical and beautiful. Credit , via .
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• Free Coloring Pages - Butterflies Coloring Pages

  
  Today's Top Voted Bookmarks — Authority: 151
  Free Coloring Pages - Butterflies Coloring Pages Insects are an interesting and educational topic. These free printable coloring pages are great for fun educational activity in any type school setting. Coloring is a great developmental tool and is a super way to introduce new subjects in schools.Coloring pages and ...
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• Boo!

  
  Enchanted Dandelions — Authority: 112
  Just wanted to share a few pictures from our Halloween. I didnt get very many/good ones, because it was more than a little chaotic. (We spent that weekend at a friends who has 5 kiddos of her own.) Abbie the rainbow butterfly princess . I found that dress at Goodwill, added the ribbon trim and sewed little ...
  3 days ago

• Photograph of the Day: Pocketful of Posies

  
  http://epiac1216.wordpress.com — Authority: 137
  (Credit: Pixdaus.com) [IMG: http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b389/epiac1216/1256764738Xq8Rknm.jpg][IMG: http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epiac1216.wordpress.com&blog=2426017&post=6225&subd=epiac1216&ref=&feed=1]
  3 days ago

• Love those butterflies.

  
  Carrie and Danielle — Authority: 131
  I remember being nervous and terrified and stricken and energized, and it was the first time I realized that, okay, I had to find a way to take this adrenaline and this fear and these butterflies and turn them into a performance. It was a feeling that stuck with me for life, because if I don’t have some of those ...
  4 days ago

• Moths: Butterflies’ Mysterious Cousins

  
  BEYONDbones — Authority: 124
  photo credit: e³°°° Butterflies are probably the most popular insects ever! But what about moths ? What’s their story? Why are they less popular than butterflies, considering the fact that there are nearly 250,000 species of them compared to only about 20,000 species of butterflies? This is one fact ...
  5 days ago

• Scientists find butterflies splitting into two species

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 464
  Breaking up may actually not be hard to do, say scientists whove found a population of tropical butterflies that may be on its way to a split into two distinct species.
  5 days ago

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